The Security box, podcast 146: A name to the faceless proxy service

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Welcome to the security box, podcast 146. On this podcast, we may have multiple morons; one is a definite, news, notes and a very interesting topic about the proxy services and what they're up to.

Potential Morons

• 48 States Sue Phone Company That Allegedly Catered To Needs of Robocallers talks about the majority of the U.S. and how they're suing a telephone company in Arizona who seems to be catering to the robocallers by allowing customers to spoof caller ID among other things.
• Free VPN Service SuperVPN Exposes 360 Million User Records. was found on Monday, the 29th. Class, what can we learn from this article?

Topic

This time, we're going to talk about a very interesting KrebsOnSecurity article titled Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’ which was quite interesting.

The first paragraph says:

For the past seven years, a malware-based proxy service known as “Faceless” has sold anonymity to countless cybercriminals. For less than a dollar per day, Faceless customers can route their malicious traffic through tens of thousands of compromised systems advertised on the service. In this post we’ll examine clues left behind over the past decade by the proprietor of Faceless, including some that may help put a face to the name.

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